nence.=

Against diseases here the strongest fence
Is the defensive virtue abstinence.
11
HERRICK: _Aph. Abstinence._

=Abuse.=

Thou thread, thou thimble,
Thou yard, three quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail,
Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou:
Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant.
12
SHAKS.: _Tam. of the S.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Accident.=

As the unthought-on accident is guilty
Of what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.
13
SHAKS.: _Wint. Tale,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field.
14
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow
To vaunt themselves God's laws.
15
CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saints' Tragedy,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

By many a happy accident.
16
MIDDLETON: _No Wit, No Help, Like a Woman's,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Account.=

No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head.
17
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

=Accusation.=

Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine.
18
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. viii., Line 561.

=Achievements.=

Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd,
And then they shine.
19
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Loyal Subject,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

=Acquaintance.=

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' lang syne?
20
BURNS: _Auld Lang Syne._

=Action.=

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
21
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

Of every noble action, the intent
Is to give worth reward--vice punishment.
22
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Captain,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
23
JAMES SHIRLEY: _Death's Final Conquest,_ Sc. iii.

Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws
Makes that and th' action fine.
24
HERBERT: _The Elixir._

=Activity.=

If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly.
25
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 7.

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
26
SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 4.

=Actors.=

A strutting player,--whose conceit
Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
'Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage.
27
SHAKS.: _Troil. and